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Áigidecht Aithirni
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Áigidecht Aithirni
‘The guesting of Athirne’
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| Manuscripts
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Sources:
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii2], ff. 118a—118b
- London, British Library, MS Harleian 5280 [s. xviin], f. 77r—77v. The second part of the text only.
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10 (Betham 145, 967) [s. xvi], pp. 15—16. The second part of the text.
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| Language
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early Middle Irish (Meyer)
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| Date
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11th century (Meyer)
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| Description
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The short prose text includes eight poems ascribed to Athirne.
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Summary
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Editions and translations
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Meyer, Kuno (ed. and tr.), “The guesting of Athirne”, Ériu 7 (1914): 1—9. » LL, with variants from Harleian 5280.
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Thurneysen, Rudolf (ed.), “A third copy of the Guesting of Athirne”, Ériu 7 (1914): 196—199. » Version from 23 N 10.
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Greene, David, and Frank O'Connor (Michael O'Donovan) (eds. and trs.), A golden treasury of Irish poetry, A.D. 600 to 1200, London: Macmillan, 1967. 140—141. » Poems on the four seasons.
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Secondary sources
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Lubotsky, Alexander, “Varia IV: On the alliteration in ‘The guesting of Athirne’”, Ériu 33 (1982): 170—171.
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